The handling of user preferences is becoming an increasingly important issue in present-day information systems. Among others, preferences are used for information filtering and ex...
The proliferation of cell phones has led to an ever increasing number of inappropriate interruptions. SmartContacts provides a solution to this problem by empowering the caller to...
There is a growing belief that the environment plays an important role in the healing process of patients, supported by empirical findings. Previous research showed that psychologi...
Our previous research illustrated the design of fuzzy logic based online risk assessment for Distributed Intrusion Prediction and Prevention Systems (DIPPS) [3]. Based on the DIPP...
There has been a flurry of recent work on the design of high performance software and hybrid hardware/software transactional memories (STMs and HyTMs). This paper reexamines the ...